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Celebrating Advent :: Tsh Oxenreider [Ep 305]
Don't Mom Alone Podcast
11/16/20
•47m
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As a mom of three small children, author and podcaster Tsh Oxenreider found Christmas a bit overwhelming and as Charlie Brown would say, “too commercial.” Year after year she found herself dreading the season and looking for simple ways to refocus the holiday on the things that mattered most.
After living overseas for a year with her family and switching to a more liturgical church, Tsh found the centuries old observance of Advent to be the perfect way to slow down the crazy season of Christmas. She joins me to introduce Advent if you are new to it and to talk about the beautiful new Advent guide she created.
“This is for us, this is to reset our hearts and our focus to that which is the true reason we celebrate Christmas. So the thing I love about celebrating Advent in our culture is that it feels pretty counter-cultural in a world that both is focused on the gifts and is focused on the consumption parts of Christmas.”
If you’ve ever wanted to know more about the liturgical practice of Advent, this is the show for you! Tsh shares a lot of practicals and perspectives about why celebrating this separate season can help us prepare for both the celebration of Jesus’ birth and the eventual time when Christ will, one day, make all things new.
Connect with Tsh:- Website: https://tshoxenreider.com
- Instagram: @tshoxenreider
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/tsh
- BOOK: Shadow and Light: A Journey into Advent
- Biblical Feasts with Amber Lee
- Advent resources from Tsh
- Other books from Tsh
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Forgiving What You Can’t Forget :: Lysa TerKeurst [Ep 304]
November 9, 2020
•53m
Do you ever find yourself replaying and reliving the details of the deepest hurt in your life? My guest today has endured a devastating, public heartbreak – and she has wrestled with the lingering,unresolved pain which followed. Author and speaker Lysa TerKeurst joins me to share part of her journey of learning to forgive what you can’t forget.
“I don't want to make this sound more clean and pretty than it actually was. It was hard. It was horrific. It was terrible. And walking out something as devastating as an affair in a marriage created tremendous burden and tremendous hardship. But I will say that one commitment that I made that was really important was that I can feel hurt, but I don't have to choose to live hurt. Or perpetuate that hurt into other people.”
Lysa shares vulnerably and offers advice for anyone who feels stuck in a cycle of unresolved pain. We talk about the huge help a Christian counselor has been both for Lysa and her children throughout this process and how she delved into what the Bible really says about forgiveness.
“The Bible never says that people have to forgive and forget. It actually says quite the opposite. If we can be healed of it, it is actually beneficial not to forget because it becomes a testimony that can be used in powerful ways. And that's part of the good that God can bring in our story. I think how we know that we are experiencing healing is the way that we tell the stories of our lives.”
Connect with Lysa:- Website: https://lysaterkeurst.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialLysa
- Instagram: @lysaterkeurst
- EP 45: 5 Schedule Sappers and How to Stop Them :: Lysa TerKeurst
- EP 131: Uninvited :: Lysa TerKeurst, Kay Wyma & Courtney DeFeo
- BOOK: Forgiving What You Can't Forget
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Santa or No Santa :: Ep 306
November 23, 2020
•37m
You know who is coming to town. The big man in the red suit is everywhere this time of year and each of us grew up with different traditions on how to engage with and celebrate Santa.
My assistant Sarah-Jane and I chat about what it was like for each of us growing up with and without Santa and how we acknowledge the jolly yuletide figure with our kids without taking the focus off Jesus.
Sarah-Jane shares how her family adopted a separate holiday in December, Saint Nicholas Day, and I talk about playing the “Santa Game” with my kids. Wherever you fall on the “Santa spectrum,” we hope this conversation gives you grace to celebrate Christmas with your family with or without Santa being a major part (and give that same grace to others).
“Isn't it so great that God doesn't work the same way as Santa? It’s because we're so naughty that we got the gift of Jesus. It's the opposite. So I would, as a teaching moment to reemphasize the glorious grace of Jesus. Instead of thinking, I can't do Santa because it takes away from the grace of Jesus, the good news is we have a different option.”
Links Mentioned:- Saint Nicholas Center
- Veggietales- Saint Nicolas: A Story of Joyful Giving
- Buck Denver: Who is Santa Claus?
- Light ‘Em Up
- The Star from Afar
- The Shepherd on the Search
- Using Santa to Teach Grace [BLOG POST]
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